Give!Guide Report

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Wow! You made so many donations to our annual Give!Guide that we’re just now finishing the tallies and making final deliveries of incentives.

Altogether, WW’ s 2007 Give!Guide produced more than $518,000 for 49 Portland-area nonprofits. That’s more than twice last year’s $228,000—and doesn’t include the in-kind contributions you made or the hours you volunteered along the way.

Here are some of this year’s special Give!Guide All Stars:

1. Readers , you top the list, as 3,001 of you made 6,654 donations, averaging $78 per donation and $173 per donor. Nearly half of you—1,486—are 35 or younger.

2. Next are the 49 nonprofits . Each of you did a wonderful job encouraging donations. Your hard work is infectious, and your feedback has been unstintingly positive.

4. The amazing team at OakTree Digital . Two years ago, we needed to improve Give!Guide’s web presence. You gave us a truly engaging and easy-to-use site. Over that time period, donations have jumped more than sixfold from $78,000 to $520,000, and you deserve a lot of the credit. In addition, CEO John Schmitt and his crew (that’s you, David, Allie, Jeremy and company) have done amazing behind-the-scenes work on Give!Guide’s back end.

5. Then, there’s the community involvement team at Momentum Market Intelligence . You gave Give!Guide its start back in 2004. In addition to funding the Skidmore Prize each year, MMI vets prize nominees and surveys the previous year’s donors and recipients to identify ways we can improve. Special thanks to Lisa Albrecht, Sanjit Kundu, Ben Kim-Gervey and their team.